Joel Fuhrman Quotes

I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.

I did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It's so bloody tedious; I'm losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.

I was on a starvation diet to look like I was near death in a film... but I went at it with a plan, and I had a guide; a nutritionist kind of helped me with it.

While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.

It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.

I've never deprived myself of anything. I've always thought if you need to lose weight, carry on eating what you like, just eat less. I don't agree with doing without pasta or bread; it's too harsh.

The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.

Most weight loss diets center around portion control, which is just trying to eat smaller amounts of the same addictive foods. This approach inevitably fails.

Why is it when you're dieting, you crave everything?

I never starved myself.

A high nutrient diet, if widely adopted, could bring millions of people in touch with true hunger, and stop the proliferation of obesity and preventable chronic disease.

Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

I do not believe in starving myself.

I'm on a no-gummy bear or juice diet, and my body feels like it's dying on the inside.

I hate fad diets.

Mine is the least fat diet in the world.

I hate dieting. Let's just say that.

Cutting back on calories is not the answer to successful weight loss and successful health... you have to increase the quality of what you eat, not just reduce the quantity.

A 'diet' is simply an individual's eating regimen: it doesn't have to mean the restrictive plan we've come to associate this word with.

I made a lot of friends over the years and I would always look at what they were eating. All of them were skinny. I would think that I would like to eat like that.

I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.

If I have to get into a bikini, then I eat carrot sticks for three days.

I've been dieting my whole life because I have a tremendous appetite.

I think all diets are kind of weird. The word 'die' is in it.

If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent.